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Unless you live in Alaska, produce and other "healthy" foods are much cheaper than fast food. People who say otherwise either a) shop at ridiculously priced places like Whole Foods, or b) have never bought their own groceries. And if you're near a city, you can go to ethnic markets for cheap meat. Otherwise, look for sales…
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I lose 3 pounds between the time I go to bed at night and when I step out of the shower in the morning. 5 pound fluxuation isn't unusual.
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Adjust your daytime eating to allow you to eat at night. It doesn't matter when you eat.
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I binge (eat & drink!) on the weekends, but not during the week. It's easy not to do it during the week: I don't have any foods in the house to binge on, and I don't eat foods at work that I didn't bring myself. I also eat less during the week to allow for weekend hedonism. If you don't want to eat it, just stop buying it.
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No links to actual science are included in that article, making it worthless. But really, who cares? This has nothing at all to do with long-term wight loss or lifestyle change.
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I happily cheat every weekend, beginning Friday night and ending when I get to work on Monday. I keep calories down the rest of the week to allow this.
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It doesn't matter when you have your protein. That said, I do take a protein supplement because it's hard to get enough otherwise when I'm cutting. Otherwise, the only fitness-related supplement I've found to be worth taking is creatine. BCAAs do nothing for my soreness, and pre-workout has never done anything for my…
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Either you're one of the X-Men and your superpower is not losing weight, or you're taking in more than you think you are. Physics doesn't allow another choice. Also, "usually" and "about" are weasel words, suggesting that you don't know how many calories you're eating.
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Never.
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Vices are what makes life worth living. One reason I work out is so that I can enjoy my vices.
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That's ridiculous, and utterly wrong. There are different types of addiction, and some are more complicated than others. That's why addiction medicine is a whole separate field of medicine and study. I'm an alcoholic thanks to my genes, so I'm very careful about my alcohol intake in order to not experience negative…
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This "study" is from a low-quality, pay-for-publication journal. That doesn't necessary nullify the results, but I wouldn't believe a word of it unless the experiment were re-run and results published in more respected publication. There's a much better, similar study in JAMA (it doesn't get much more respected that that!)…
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a) 10 days is nothing. Give it at least a month. b) You'll hold on to water on keto, especially at the beginning.
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No one can "shame" you unless you feel you're doing something wrong. If you're satisfied with your weight, nothing anyone else does is going to make you feel bad about it. Children are easy to shame, because they haven't yet developed the skills to understand right from wrong, or have difficulty controlling their emotions.…
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Arnold & co. got huge on pizza and beer, alongside their chicken and veggies. IIFYM.
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Slim down.
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But they're not excluded; their bikes are. I don't mind bikes on heavily traveled trails, but as a backcountry backpacker, bikes would cause more damage than is necessary. The whole goal of what I do is to leave zero trace to the best of my ability. No, because the vast, vast majority of wilderness has either no trails, or…
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I always get up to about 190-195 during fall/winter, and then drop to around 180 by April. The goal is to have more muscle each summer than the year before, and I'm on track to do that again this year. As of January 1, I'll be kissing all that beer/ice cream goodbye. :/
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Changing your diet is less important than exercise when it comes to cholesterol. A lot of people -- particularly older doctors, educated in the '80s and '90s -- will tell you to cut out eggs and bacon and things like that, but what you really need to do is get your heart pumping. When my doctor saw my cholesterol drop a…
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She's been roughly 140 pounds at 5'5" for nearly a year. Does that sound like a "disorder" to you? OP, you do it by doing it. You can't eat what isn't around, so don't keep binge-worthy foods around. By all means, pay someone else hundreds (thousands?) of dollars to tell you not to binge. Or just choose not to.
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I lose 3 pounds between the time I go to bed at night and when I step out of the shower in the morning. 5 would be pretty easy. 100% water weight, but easily do-able. The question is 'Why?' You won't look any different and you'll feel dehydrated.
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This is why I don't bother eating back my calories. My workout schedule is the same every week, so all I had to do was figure out what my real maintenance number was (using TDEE as a starting point, but then perfecting by actually counting calories for a few weeks). When I want to lose, I eat a little under. When I want to…
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2 reasons you're going to get crapped on here: 1) "Cleanses" are bs. Nothing is being cleansed, although if it helps you as a starting point, great. 2) By giving us the name of the bs "cleanse" you're using, you've made a thread that looks like spam. This is why 3 people have reported this thread. It's nothing personal.…
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My maintenance is lower than that, and I'm a 6' tall, 180-pound guy. Are you weighing all your food, or guesstimating portion sizes? Because if you were really eating what you claim to be eating, you'd absolutely be losing weight. I think most people here are hung up on the fact that you're 20 and seem to be freaking out,…
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It isn't rude to the OP to say that "naturopathic" doctors are a scam, unless OP is in fact a naturopathic doctor. So without being rude: Yeah, it's all BS. Nobody needs to see a doctor to lose weight; just eat fewer calories.
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Don't strive to be the 5% that succeed; strive to be the 1% who excels.
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This is the type of make-believe BS that you'll see on Fat Acceptance Tumblrs, but I'm sad to see it here. Being fat isn't "the most important" factor, but its VERY important.
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The bodybuilding maxim: Bulk until you're tired of being fat; cut until you're tired of being weak. The truth is that there's no need to gain more than 10-15 pounds when bulking. Lots of people use it as an excuse to get fat, when that's really unnecessary. Honestly, it doesn't look like you need to bulk at all. You just…
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None of those things force people to take in more calories than they burn. If you gain weight, it's because you've chosen to consume more than you need. Weight gain is a choice. Weight loss is a choice. Maintaining is a choice. Every food item that passes your lips is a choice to ingest those calories. Medicine and medical…
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The problem with the male version is that it doesn't seem to take into account having larger arms, legs, or shoulders. I'm currently a little bigger than my avatar (more muscle, slightly less fat) but that site -- with all my stats -- thinks I'm a dumpy, skinnyfat guy.
